<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">For any of you also considering an &quot;ENUM&quot; type in a DBMS, in particular (and in fact only in) MySQL, you are encouraged to rethink it, based on the post &quot;8 Reasons Why MySQL&#39;s ENUM Data Type Is Evil&quot; at <a href="http://komlenic.com/244/8-reasons-why-mysqls-enum-data-type-is-evil/" target="_blank">http://komlenic.com/244/8-reasons-why-mysqls-enum-data-type-is-evil/</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>